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Sustainability
Making Sustainable Events Easier
A new collaboration aims to get a web-based tool developed in cooperation with the United Nations into more organizers’ hands so they can more easily measure and report the climate impact of their events.
A Less Wasteful Approach to Experiential Events
How Analog Events works with corporate clients and celebrities to produce events with a big impact and small environmental footprint.
Harnessing the Energy of ‘Unlike Minds’
Energy Disruptors: UNITE is an immersive energy sector summit that aims to bring together diverse voices — along with an unexpected infusion of the arts — to spark change.
Business Events: We’re About Halfway There With Sustainability
According to the 14th Global Forecast from Amex GBT Meetings & Events, more than half of the 519 meeting professionals surveyed this year around the globe agree that sustainability is extremely or very important when it comes to planning their programs.
Event Organizers Double Down on Sustainability
According to our soon-to-be-published annual Meetings Market Survey, three out of five planners are including sustainability requirements in their RFPs, in addition to bolstering other efforts to check their events’ carbon footprint.
New Ways to Help Understand Extreme Heat Risks
Recent developments and tools that can help make it easier for meeting organizers to calculate and communicate the risks of extreme heat to meeting attendees.
‘Events Are the Thinking Machine of the World’
The first-ever Convene 4 Climate, held earlier this month in Barcelona, began with a TED-style talk by bonafide sustainability pioneer Paul Dickinson.
A New Way of Thinking
One key connection between DEI and sustainability is a shared commitment to challenging the status quo. While technology can help us solve some issues, it alone isn’t enough. We need to think and act in new ways.
One Way to Engage Attendees and Give Back to the Community
At WasteExpo 2024 in Las Vegas, organizers built engagement brick by brick with a LEGO wall — then donated all 18,000 LEGO pieces to a local non-profit helping children.
Does Sustainability Start From Within?
The Inner Development Goals lay out a framework based upon strengthening human skillsets to help people be a positive force for change in society.
What We’re Seeing: The Great Elephant Migration
A 100-strong herd of Indian elephant replicas — the Great Elephant Migration — makes its way to New York City, spreading a message of animal/human coexistence, and also of sustainability.
What’s Holding Up Sustainability Efforts in Global Events?
How has the events industry moved the needle on sustainability? A recent survey shows there’s even more of a gap than in previous studies between how North American planners and their European counterparts prioritize sustainability initiatives. Also, the cost to implement those efforts is seen as prohibitive.